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Horne Lake Caves, Qualicum Beach, BC
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Horne Lake Caves

Horne Lake Caves is a tour in Qualicum Beach, BC, part of the Vancouver guide. Cost: $50 or more. Open year round; rappelling tours run May to September.

3905 Horne Lake Caves Rd · Qualicum Beach, BC

Why you should go…

Horne Lake Caves is the guided-tour operation inside Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park, about 30 minutes west of Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island. Helmeted, headlamp-lit tours lead through Riverbend Cave and the Main Cave past ancient calcite formations and fossils, with climbs, squeezes and a cave slide on the longer routes. Options range from the 1 hour 45 minute Riverbend Cave Explorer (ages 6 and up) to the 5.5-hour Max Depth Adventure with rappels (ages 13 and up). Tours run year round, seven days a week; the vertical tours are offered May to September.

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  • #provincial park
  • #guided tours
  • #vancouver island
  • #fossils

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